reg cores

[satish]

Dear erman,

I know this is not your expertise but as i am not getting help anywhere,i am approaching you with some hope

This is our procured licences and i need your help in understanding below information

1)what exactly they mean by units?
2)Do they take licence based on cores or CPU(Physical)

Production
DB – 2 Units (0.5 - Core Intel Processor Licensing Factor) = 4 Intel core licenses
RAC – 2 core licenses
UAT
DB – 2 Units  (0.5 - Core Intel Processor Licensing Factor) = 4 Intel core licenses
RAC – 2 core licenses

Thank you

[ErmanArslansOracleBlog]

1)In my opinion, units means "license", so you have 2 cpu licenses. As your cpus are intel and as Core Intel Processor Licensing Factor is 2, you  have 4 Intel core licenses. So you can run your database on a 4 core intel machine.
2)yes.

[satish]

Thanks for the update erman.

We have 2 db nodes(RAC)
4 cores running on each node.In this case,are 4 core intel licences sufficient or do we need to get another 4 core intel licences?

node1
=====
[root@rookdb1 ~]# dmidecode -t 4 | egrep -i "Designation|Intel|core|thread"
        Socket Designation: Proc 1
        Manufacturer: Intel(R) Corporation
                HTT (Multi-threading)
        Version: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2637 v4 @ 3.50GHz
        Core Count: 4
        Core Enabled: 4
        Thread Count: 8
                Multi-Core
                Hardware Thread
        Socket Designation: Proc 2
[root@rookdb1 ~]#

node2
=====
[root@rookdb2 ~]# dmidecode -t 4 | egrep -i "Designation|Intel|core|thread"
        Socket Designation: Proc 1
        Manufacturer: Intel(R) Corporation
                HTT (Multi-threading)
        Version: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2637 v4 @ 3.50GHz
        Core Count: 4
        Core Enabled: 4
        Thread Count: 8
                Multi-Core
                Hardware Thread
        Socket Designation: Proc 2
[root@rookdb2 ~]#

[ErmanArslansOracleBlog]

Again, this is not my expertise, but in my opinion;

For RAC, you will need to license core "count per node x node count x 0.5(as your cores are intel)."

This makes 4*2*0.5 = 4 units of RAC licenses. (considering you are using Enterprise edition)

For an offical answer, please contact Oracle.